For months now I have wanted nothing so much as to be able to say, "I have completed and delivered THE WINDS OF WINTER" on or before the last day of 2015.
but no one could possibly be more disappointed than me.
My editors and publishers are disappointed, HBO is disappointed, my agents and foreign publishers and translators are disappointed. You're disappointed, and you're not alone. You won't like it.īelieve me, it gave me no pleasure to type those words. But inevitably that brings me to my own personal "worst of times," and that is considerably less fun to blog about, so do forgive my reluctance to do so. I've spent much of the day recreating (in Cliff's Note summaries) my own personal "best of times" from the previous year, all the wonderful things that went down for me in 2015, the awards and the publications and the bestseller lists, the cons and the parties, the travel, all the exciting new projects underway at HBO and right here down the street in Santa Fe. “We’ll find out about that, but first I have to finish it.GrrmThe last post from the Lost Post, and the one you've all been waiting for.īack when this was one long long long post, before Live Journal sent it to the cornfield, I mentioned opening with Dickens' line, "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times." So it was for me in 2015. Are they going to try to make me cut it in two?” Martin said. “Of course, there’s the issue here of my friends at Random House, when I deliver this monstrous book that will be as big as a dragon. In the same event, Martin also noted that there’s a chance The Winds of Winter could end up being split into two separate volumes by his publisher. I think is going to be longer than that by the time I’m finished with it, and I think I’m about three-quarters of the way done, maybe? But that’s not 100% done, so I have to continue to work on it.” They were both about 1,500 manuscript pages. The author continued, “ A Dance with Dragons and A Storm of Swords are the two largest books in the series. It’s probably gonna be a larger book than any of the previous volumes in the series,” Martin said.
“It’s a big, big book, I’ve said that before. Martin revealed that he’s about 75% done with The Winds of Winter. HBOĪ New Update - During a recent livestream for Penguin Random House, George R. Kit Harington as Jon Snow in the Season 6 finale of Game of Thrones.
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